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Christian patience
November 15, 2025
After Our Lord tells his disciples about the calamities, persecutions and sufferings they will have to endure before the end, he concludes today’s Gospel passage by saying, “By your perseverance you will secure your lives.”
Eternal life
November 1, 2025
No one is comfortable with death. This unease transcends all cultures and religions as they grapple with the inevitability, powerlessness, and the finality which death makes real.
Humble mercy
October 25, 2025
In a deeply insightful moment, the titular hero of G.K. Chesterton’s “Father Brown” mystery series reveals the secret of his powers of deduction to his friend, the former thief Flambeau.
Return and give thanks
October 11, 2025
On his way to Jerusalem, Jesus encounters 10 lepers. Leprosy was one of the most-dreaded realities of his day. It resulted in tremendous pain, had no cure, led to a long, drawn-out death and caused religious and social isolation.
Deserving heaven
October 4, 2025
Do we deserve heaven? Or better yet, does God owe us eternal life?
Whose prudence, which dwellings?
September 20, 2025
The Lord gives us a parable today about a steward about to be fired for squandering his master’s property.
Exaltation of the cross
September 13, 2025
Sept. 14 — Jn 3:13-17
True love by its very nature greatly desires the good of the other.
God comes first
September 6, 2025
Sept. 7 — Lk 14:25-33
One of my friends at the University of Mary Washington is the local rabbi who serves as the Jewish campus minister right down the street.
How many will be saved?
August 23, 2025
Aug. 24 — Lk 13:22–30
Someone asks Jesus a question in today’s Gospel, and we could wonder about his motivations.
